The Winery Alain Marquetoux of Brouilly of Beaujolais

Winery Alain Marquetoux - Cuvee Fut De Chene Brouilly
The winery offers 3 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.7.
It is ranked in the top 95 of the estates of Beaujolais.
It is located in Brouilly in the region of Beaujolais

The Winery Alain Marquetoux is one of the world's great estates. It offers 3 wines for sale in of Brouilly to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Alain Marquetoux wines

Looking for the best Winery Alain Marquetoux wines in Brouilly among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Winery Alain Marquetoux wines. Also find some food and wine pairings that may be suitable with the wines from this area. Learn more about the region and the Winery Alain Marquetoux wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top red wines of Winery Alain Marquetoux

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Alain Marquetoux

How Winery Alain Marquetoux wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pasta, veal or pork such as recipes of mascarpone pasta with tomato sauce, alsatian fondue or melt-in-the-mouth pork tenderloin casserole.

Discovering the wine region of Brouilly

Brouilly is an appellation for red wines produced from Vineyards in north-central Beaujolais. The lower slopes of Mont Brouilly and the surrounding countryside contain large plantings of the Gamay Grape. The wines produced here are relatively robust and Full-bodied, in contrast to the light, fresh wines of Beaujolais Nouveau. The wines are fruitier than many of the other Beaujolais crus, with plum and berry flavors overpowering the traditional Floral">floralCharacter of Gamay.

The appellation was officially delimited along with most other Beaujolais crus in the 1930s. While the appellation applies only to red wines, the white varieties Chardonnay, Aligoté and Melon de Bourgogne can account for 15% of the vineyard area. They are also authorised as a minor component of the blend in Brouilly wines. The Brouilly wine area covers six communes around Mont Brouilly, none of which bears the name Brouilly, which is unusual for a Beaujolais cru.

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The word of the wine: Chair

Characteristic of a wine that gives an impression of fullness and density in the mouth, without any roughness.